• Angry_Autist (he/him)
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    317 months ago

    Reading this thread is letting me know how behind the times I am, like 90% of the apps are greek to me.

    Used to have a huge library media server, torrenting all the day long.

    But you guys, WOOHOO hosting drop servers and auto seeking subtitle and NFOs 24/7 from a curated seek list. FUCKING BRILLIANT!

    I don’t got that kind of energy in my old age

    Nowadays I have a handful of pirate stream sites and that’s really all I need.

    • @SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
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      147 months ago

      Older geek here. I started with Plex and torrent. Added sonarr. Researched and switched to jellyfin. Learned about arr stack. Moved services to docker.

      It’s now super low maintenance. If I need to update a service, I just kill and recreate it. I have a second machine for media storage.

      I think I spent a weekend building the arrstack and I have a few days total working on the home made NAS.

    • @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      277 months ago

      Why pay for usenet access when my ISP gives me the same upload as I have download and I’m not using it for anything else?

      • Lord Wiggle
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        Because paying for usenet means paying for privacy rights. Next to that, law enforcements are actively hunting uploaders, not downloaders. Usenet is much faster. Constant uploading is less energy efficient as it requires more pc power (especially when uploading loads of data) so it costs you more power, slows your pc, keeps your hard drives actively running which wears them down (as I imagine you don’t have 32TB in SSD). With torrents you need to keep them uploading to get ratio on the closed community sites, so it takes up much more drive capacity. On open sites you get loads of viruses and other junk. I use my upload speed for friends to stream the content from my NAS instead. I got free vpn with my usenet account, for the price of a vpn account so I pay as much as you downloading torrents, if not less, assuming you’re smart enough to have a paid vpn subscription. And this vpn is on top of SSL for extra privacy.

        Usenet is better in so many ways.

        • azl
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          67 months ago

          I don’t want to get in the way of your argument re. Usenet, but spinning hard drives will last longer if they stay on. Starting and stopping the spindle motor will impart the greatest wear. As long as you have the thermals managed, a spinning disk is a happy disk.

          • Lord Wiggle
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            17 months ago

            Yeah fair enough, but that’s why they run idle instead of off when not in use, right? At least my NAS optimizes the lifespan of my drives while at the same time preserves power by keeping them running idle when not in use AFAIK. As soon as I access data I hear the drives spinning harder. My pc runs on SSD’s as it is off during the night and downloading to SSD storage means rewriting bits all the time which wears SSD storage down, unlike with HDD’s. So my NAS runs sonarr and radarr and automatically downloads everything by itself, directly to HDD’s. But those HDD’s are idle when I’m not downloading, because I’m not uploading because I don’t use torrents.

            But please correct me if I’m wrong. I’d love to improve my setup and the life span of my drives.

        • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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          37 months ago

          Someone correct me if I am wrong, but downloading is not actionable for the studios. Only distribution is. If you only ever download there is nothing they can do.

          • Lord Wiggle
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            17 months ago

            Both downloading and uploading is illegal in most places, even downloading became illegal here in the Netherlands a few years ago. But searching for someone downloading a movie is dumb, you would want to catch the uploader so there won’t be anything to download anymore. The Dutch company Brein actively searches for uploaders and fines them on contract from creators, labels and studios. They do this together with the Dutch police and police from other nationalities. They don’t care if you have ip TV, they do care if you host ip TV. They don’t care if you download, they do care if you upload. With torrents you also upload, so they want to fine you if able. Due to privacy laws in The Netherlands this isn’t possible yet, but in Germany it’s a standard practice as ISP’s are forces to share user information.

          • @Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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            37 months ago

            I think there’s no hard rules. I think in Australia, with the Dallas Buyers Club fiasco, the judge said a fair compensation for pirating a copy of the film was the price of the DVD, but because the studio were trying to sue a single individual for millions they threw the case out.

            As far as know there is no precedent for piracy punishments on individuals. The best they can do is ask your ISP to send you a strongly worded letter.

      • zeekaran
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        17 months ago

        Seriously, private trackers work great, are free, and are simpler to use.

    • @Clent@lemmy.world
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      27 months ago

      Usenet is the way but I’ve never witnessed someone who torrents see the light in a penny comment thread. Few people truly understand opsec and how to quantify their own risk surface, but those who do will gravitate towards Usenet.

      Speed is also a factor. Casuals don’t understand what it is to grab a release before a torrent has found the first seeder.

      • Lord Wiggle
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        27 months ago

        Many don’t know about usenet. When you only download using torrents and don’t know anything else, you might look into it after reading something about it here. It’s how I found sonarr and radarr, by reading about it on reddit.

        About the speed: Oh, that’s such a difference. I download with roughly 100MB/s constantly, which is the max write speed of my drives (1000mb/s connection). I’ve never reached anything like that with torrents.

        New movie? Sure. Let’s download the 46GB version. 10min later and it’s downloaded, extracted, renamed, put in the right folder, added to Kodi ready to watch, including subtitles.

        To me usenet is a no-brainer.

  • bizarroland
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    97 months ago

    If this is how I find out I need to update my jellyfin I’m going to be sad

    • @dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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      I know this person and, honestly, it’s a thing of majesty. These discs have presence, heft, and are valuable. They’re collectors items on some level - every last one of them. So what if we’re watching “Jaws” or “Aliens” for the 400th time. We’re having a real, visceral experience here.

      • @BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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        67 months ago

        I’m exaggerating here, I only have about 200 laserdiscs. That’s just a portion of my physical media collection. But I do really enjoy them. My toddler calls them “big movies” and we’ve watched Bambi I don’t know how many times. And hell yeah, Jaws and Aliens! I have the Criterion release of Silence of the Lambs, and that has also gotten a lot of play time.

    • @Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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      47 months ago

      And maybe about a minute or so more - absolutely not because I wanna cause any discomfort, I just need to process the shock & loss (maybe some abatement issues) to be able to physically move away, back home to my def-not-up-to-date Jelly Fino (thats the name of my main instance).

      (Actually I really should update my Jellyfin client on Tizen … or buy a N100 player or something.)

    • @AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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      97 months ago

      Is she from the Maxx? It was an animated show on MTV a long time ago. Her name is Sarah and there’s a whole part where she gets a gun to defend herself but she always comes across as a little bit deranged.

      I can't find a better image searching with my phone just now

        • Angry_Autist (he/him)
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          17 months ago

          Recognizing that is a part of growth, don’t think bad of it.

          I used to fucking love a cartoon about a living magical alien rubick’s cube that was so bad it didn’t even make it through the first season despite the toy being a raging success at the time.

          Just like if you cringe at the stupid shit you used to do, it’s just a sign that you’ve matured enough to know it was stupid.